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Biography: literary

Paperback. Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Eland Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955010514
ISBN
9780955010514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.08

Paperback. J. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique novels. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781311523
ISBN
9781781311523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. A revision of an English icon through the formative decade of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571222629
ISBN
9780571222629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Presents exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571301638
ISBN
9780571301638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Presents John Cheever's journals that reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529538
ISBN
9780099529538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Stunning two-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who's who and chronology. Num Pages: 2752 pages, Index. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised and expanded edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008214548
ISBN
9780008214548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.59
€ 105.86

Paperback. A translation of the classic autobiography by Tomas O'Crohan based on the fullest and most definitive 2002 Irish language edition by Prof. Sean O Coileain. Translator(s): Bannister, Garry; Sowby, David. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780717157945
ISBN
9780717157945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Tells of Arthur Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. This book puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France, and ends with his escape from there in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a home. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099490685
ISBN
9780099490685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. * du Maurier uses a novelist's skill to portray this 'unknown' Bronte Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080755
ISBN
9781844080755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783781164
ISBN
9781783781164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Exploring Eliot's poetry, drama and essays in relation to his life in America and England, and to four quite different women who offer clues to his guarded character, this book sees his life and work as reciprocal parts of one design, the search for faith. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Little Brown
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088935
ISBN
9781844088935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353068
ISBN
9780393353068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Describes the author's shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099537854
ISBN
9780099537854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. An innovative and unique study exploring why many readers of Sylvia Plath become so attached to her as a cultural figure. By looking at first encounters with Plath's work through to pilgrimages that they make to places where Plath lived, this study explores why readers become so haunted by Plath. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555477
ISBN
9781781555477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.22

Paperback. Was Charles Dickens the secret lover of young actress Nelly Ternan? How would a man of his renown have hidden such an affair? This book offers a complete account of the scandal that threatened to ruin Dickens - now dramatised as The Invisible Woman, a 2014 BBC film starring Ralph Fiennes. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205282
ISBN
9780300205282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.29

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864739384
ISBN
9780864739384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.57

Paperback. These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with William Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. Editor(s): Woof, Pamela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536870
ISBN
9780199536870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William Woodruff's Nab End series. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083022
ISBN
9781844083022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509822546
ISBN
9781509822546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Hardback. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179720
ISBN
9780231179720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. Num Pages: 656 pages, 16 pages of black and white illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 51. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780374536251
ISBN
9780374536251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.95

Hardback. The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. Editor(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Translator(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 tables, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762489
ISBN
9780804762489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth's life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520962
ISBN
9780099520962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

paperback. The final piece of work from one of the world's most visionary authors Editor(s): Lethem, Jonathan; Jackson, Pamela. Num Pages: 976 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 150 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1280.
Publisher
Gollancz
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780575132443
ISBN
9780575132443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.66

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